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2009-11-16 Afghanistan

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-11-16 04:30|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Good stuff, and some people do go on about the youth of today. Well here is a perfect example of the youth of today, acting in an exemplary fashion.

Posted by Dave UK 2009-11-16 07:59|| 2009-11-16 07:59|| Front Page Top

#2 Ross Kemp was mentioned favorably in one of Michael Yon's dispatches. After watching this clip, I can see why. I couldn't see Shep Smith, Anderson Cooper or Campbell Brown doing this kind of reporting. Hard to keep every hair in place when you're dodging RPG's and AK-47 bullets while dressed in flak jackets in 110 degree weather.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2009-11-16 08:12|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2009-11-16 08:12|| Front Page Top

#3 Yeah, the Ross Kemp serie on afghanistan was great, you can feel he really respects the ^people he's with, and that they are not props for his showmanship (on a very different level, this is exactly the same as Mike Rowe & Dirty jobs), never had heard of Kemp before seeing this on discovery, now have seen more of his docs...

Still, at the end of it, one couldn't sensing a real "pointlessness"... for the soldiers, much to do, with too little, against a never-ending stream of gun-totting hobos/hillbillies; for the UK army, much to lose, for what?
But this brings to what the goal is, in this (dusty) paradise on earth.

Posted by anonymous5089 2009-11-16 09:23|| 2009-11-16 09:23|| Front Page Top

#4 PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > THENEWS.PK - UK PM] GORDON BROWN: THREAT FROM AL QAEDA { + Taliban, Islamist Groups] AS STRONG AS EVER/ AL QAEDA continues to possess a dynamic, extensive Network in AFRICA + MIDDLE EAST + WESTERN EUROPE includ inside UK = BRITAIN; + PAKISTANI DEFENCE
FORUM > [Former FM] KASURI: WORLD POWERS PLAYING "GREAT GAME" WITH PAKISTAN [AFPAK Peoples + Region].

versus

* SAME > THENEWS.PK > SOUTH KOREA: NORTH KOREA UNLIKELY TO GIVE UP ITS NUKES.

* WMF > "YONHAP" MEDIA: SOUTH KOREAN PRESIDENT LEE MYUNG-BAK ASKS SOKOR ARMED FORCES TO DEFEND THE NATION AND WIN ANY WAR/CONFLICT AGZ NORTH KOREA.

Posted by JosephMendiola">JosephMendiola 2009-11-16 18:59|| na]">[na] 2009-11-16 18:59|| Front Page Top

#5 They need a robot helicopter to ferry them ammo from base.

Posted by 3dc 2009-11-16 21:13|| 2009-11-16 21:13|| Front Page Top

#6 This is the truth of it. You never see the "big picture", you only see through the toilet paper tube view of your platoon and section. You do not know the snipers, the other troops in the battalion and the other crap going on until well after.

Good example of it. Good troops good execution.

Posted by Jeager Panda5130 2009-11-16 22:09|| 2009-11-16 22:09|| Front Page Top

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